Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.